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Dave Langlois

@davelanglois.bsky.social
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Author, nature lover, birding cyclist (1200k pa), art lover, music lover. And I love it when all those come together.

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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Butterfly season still in full swing here in Asturias. Over 20 adonis blues, 2 small pearl-bordered frits and a host of other butterflies hovering over the gorse on yesterday’s walk, and today a gorgeous brown hairstreak ovipositing on my garden prunus.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Still plenty of pristine adonis blues on the wing on today's walk from our house through the scenery showed in the other photo
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Sometimes a beautiful day just keeps building to a stunning climax
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
My 2011-to-2025 red-backed-shrike survey in Asturias. In 2025 137 of 326 sites occupied. The data suffer irremediably from the missing zero effect. With that caveat @Naturalist_Sam has drawn up some neat graphs. Map shows my cycling routes and territories color-coded by height
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
One of the completest rainbows I've ever seen, with our new house at one of the treasure-crock ends.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
For the last few days the carrion crows here have been flying around with walnuts in their beaks, dropping them on the road to break open. And at dawn today a crow was burying one in my garden, poking it well down and then carefully covering it with strands of hay and grass.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
With the recent addition of blue tit this prunus tree in my garden has now been perched in by 15 different species this summer. Anyone beat it?
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The name chosen for our new house in Asturias as homage to the 3 pairs of redstarts that breed in and around the garden
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
1 TREE. 14 BIRDS Our garden tree closest to the house has played host this summer to: Red backed shrike Redstart Tree creeper Great tit Iberian chiffchaff Willow warbler Pied flycather Blackcap Great spotted woodpecker Jay Blackbird Robin Long tailed tit House Sparrow
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Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Farage would not only deport asylum seekers to the Taliban but will fund their execution
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
13 busy male red-backed shrikes and the first young of the year on today’s wonderful ride, including a still big-ringable Cat 2 (Vuelta) to raise my sagging cycling morale.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
When I stepped out of my front door this morning at 5.45 the only 2 sounds in the divine-smelling, lung-expanding gloaming were a Redstart singing from my eaves and a Nightjar singing from my trees. Slap me someone.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I spoke in a recent post about the joy of having 3 reds in the garden of my new house in Asturias: Redstart, Red-backed Shrike and Redbreast. They’re also all tail wagglers in their distinctive ways: Robin’s a tail twitcher; Redstart, a tail quiverer; the shrike a tail swayer.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
While reading at 05.45, window wide-open to hear the dawn chorus, I suddenly heard the magical churring of a Nightjar in my garden, followed by the even more wonderful sound of a spring winding down as it launches into flight. The only other sound: the day’s first redstart.
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Tests carried out on a pair of nesting Peregrine Falcons that died within days of each other have confirmed that the female was infected with bird flu:
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Bird flu detected in dead nesting Peregrine Falcon
A female Peregrine Falcon nesting at Christchurch Priory, Dorset, was confirmed to have died from bird flu in early May 2025, with her mate dying shortly after. Their eggs were non-viable. A 3-km control zone is in place to limit spread. Defra also confirmed H5N1 in captive birds near Pokesdown.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Amidst tinkling Goldfinches a Blackbird sings with masterful half-heartedness, like Beethoven idly trying out a new tune with one hand while eating a Bratwurst with the other.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
THREE REDS Bad news for a batsman. But I’m chuffed to have seen from the garden of our new house in Asturias, two pairs of Redstart, two pairs of Red Backed Shrike and, of course, several Redbreasts.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Two Painted Ladies flat on a rock: kitsch lichen.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Today on a wonderful walk from my house I got Spain's version of the Holy Trinity: Redstart, Pied Fly & Bonelli's Warbler, the poor man's Wood Warbler (terrible thing to say but they'll never know . . . )
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
50+ bee-eaters adorning a dead tree against an angry black sky illuminated from behind me by the rising sun like a theatre spotlight
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Tundra Ediciones @tundraediciones.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ya se puede encargar en www.tundraediciones.es A LA SOMBRA DE GIGANTES, de Alfonso Rodrigo. Nuevo título de la #ColecciónPaseos, de Literatura de Naturaleza, que esta vez transcurre por las lagunas y llanuras esteparias de Villafáfila. Ilustración de portada de @mascarell.bsky.social
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Víctor J. Hernández @victorjhernandez.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Es el momento de empaparse de este libro. ¡Los pájaros ya están a tope! LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, de Dave Langlois con prólogo de @joaquinaraujop.bsky.social www.tundraediciones.es
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Rebeca Rubio @rebecarubio32.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Amanece la primavera animada por LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, para comprenderlos, nada mejor que este libro de Dave Langlois que encontrarás en www.tundraediciones.es
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Tundra Ediciones @tundraediciones.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Ya disponible ESTACIONES, de @alfonsdg.bsky.social, nuevo título de la Colección Paseos, de Literatura de Naturaleza. ¿Cuánto nos queda de poder disfrutar las estaciones mediterráneas tal como las conocemos? Ilustración de portada de @mascarell.bsky.social. www.tundraediciones.es
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Tundra Ediciones @tundraediciones.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
¿Cuánto nos queda de poder disfrutar las estaciones mediterráneas tal como las conocemos? Ya se puede encargar en www.tundraediciones.es ESTACIONES, de @alfonsdg.bsky.social Nuevo título de la Colección Paseos, de Literatura de Naturaleza. Ilustración de portada de @mascarell.bsky.social
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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A day of contrasts. Several flocks of wintering Cranes starting their northward migration whilst the first Swallows and Subalpine Warblers are already here in Extremadura. A delicious 18°C compared to the miserable 4° when I left Aberdeen. And everything is already singing!
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
An unforgettable morning finding 4 rouzels only an hour from our house
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Already, even this early in spring, the variety is astonishing: blackbirds croon, wrens blare, robins ripple, blackstarts grate, blackcaps gush, greenfinches wheeze, chaffinches chuckle, chiffchaffs chiffchaff.
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Tundra Ediciones @tundraediciones.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Ya se puede encargar en www.tundraediciones.es UN OLMO EN LA RIBERA de @pilarlopezavila . Nuevo título de la Colección Paseos, de Literatura de Naturaleza. Ilustración de portada de @mascarell.bsky.social
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Rebeca Rubio @rebecarubio32.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Para comprender los cantos enamorados de las aves y mucho más en este libro extraordinario de www.tundraediciones.es
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Empezando con un basto graznido hace unos 60 millones de años, las vocalizaciones de las aves se han desarrollado hasta el sinfín de composiciones musicales que vamos a oír y disfrutar en los próximos meses. ¿Cómo? ¿Por qué?
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Tundra Ediciones @tundraediciones.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
¿Preparados para la nueva temporada? No hay mejor carta para navegar por el maravilloso concierto que comienza con la primavera: LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, de Dave Langlois, con prólogo de @joaquinaraujop.bsky.social Info y pedidos con envío GRATIS en: www.tundraediciones.es
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Tundra Ediciones @tundraediciones.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
7 de febrero: ENCUENTRO en Alcorcón con @joaquinaraujop.bsky.social en la @libreriafabula y presentación de libros, a las 19h. Con María José Parejo @bosquehabitado.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Walking down a Florence street at dawn, Giotto’s tower looming into view, Brunelleschi’s Dome, on the way to see Masaccio frescoes, Michelangelo sculptures and chapels, his Tondo, and the year’s first Blackbird softly sings from a backyard Tuscan pine.
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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
A gorgeous start to 2025, hopefully a good omen for the year ❄️
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
My 2024 exercise stats: 10,410 k of cycling; 1,152 k of walking
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Alfons Delgado Garcia @alfonsdg.eurosky.social · 31/12/2024
Ni alarmisme ni polles. Ens quedem sense ocells. Els que desapareixeran abans, els d'espais agrícoles. Informe 2024 del programa PECBMS pecbms.info/wp-content/u...
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Revista Quercus @revistaquercus.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Cuaderno 467 • Enero de 2025 www.revistaquercus.es/noticia/8950... ¡Ya en tu quiosco! O si prefieres, te lo hacemos llegar a tu casa www.librerialinneo.com/quercus-467
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Tundra Ediciones @tundraediciones.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Cosecha de 2024. Si quieres ayudarnos a continuar en la cada vez más difícil tarea de difundir cultura y divulgar la Naturaleza y la necesidad de conservarla, no te lo pienses más con esos títulos que te gustaría tener: pídelos ya con gastos de envío GRATIS en www.tundraediciones.es
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Homer in Book 1, line 230 of the Iliad summed up the Trump phenomenon nearly 3000 years ago: "You really think you’re the works but you rule over a bunch of jerks” (Achilles to Agamemnon). Plus ça change
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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Any day you see Ptarmigan is a great day. Even more so when they are so close you can film them with your phone! #ukbirding #birds
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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Staying at a lodge in Perthshire for the week and I was very surprised to see 4 Whooper Swans in the small pool alongside a male Mandarin!
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Reading Turgenev’s “A Hunter’s Sketches”, I’ve been forcibly struck by the proof, as if yet more was needed, of hunters’ utter ignorance of the natural world. Every description of wildlife is laughable. Plus ça change.
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tyler @syllytyler.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
It’s late 1934 and an American automobile magnate is supporting the German fascist party. It’s late 2024 and an ‘American’ ‘automobile’ magnate is supporting the German fascist party. www.politico.eu/article/elon...
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Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany’s far right
“Only the AfD can save Germany,” said the key Donald Trump ally.
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding
Image of a Redstart alongside the wording: Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data now freely available. This includes over 7 million records! BTO, JNCC and RSPB logo bottom left. BBS logo top middle.
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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Crested Tit singing in my garden this afternoon. I say “singing” because its customary trill was extended by a little coda in a different key. Really neat.
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